There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.